A DOCTOR raped a student nurse while she lay asleep after a night of drinking.

Dr Lakshimikanth Krishna - a local man - was convicted of raping the woman in her room at a nurses' home in November last year. He could face a lengthy prison which will almost certainly wreck his medical career.

Krishna, 27, a senior house officer at North Manchester General Hospital, attacked her after a night out drinking.

The court heard the victim had 'crashed out' fully clothed in bed alone. She later woke up feeling a pain and discovered she was naked.

Stuart Neale, prosecuting, said: "It would be obvious to the defendant that she was crashed out." He added: "He went ahead and had intercourse with her."

Shocked, she fled to a friend's room and a call was made later that morning to the police.

Krishna's story was that, once inside the room, the girl had asked him to remove her top and they had begun kissing. But he said she called out another man's name which made him stop.

The jury of nine men and three women found Krishna guilty of one count of rape. The defendant was acquitted of another similar charge in connection with the same incident. The doctor had denied the charges.

A surgeon's son he had been in the top 50 students out of 10,000 when he qualified in Bangalore, India.

Krishna was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register and remanded in custody. He is due for sentencing on November 28.